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Thinking of living at HP23 5JA? Who your neighbours would be, how far the schools, station, shops, GP and parks are from the postcode itself, which schools are near and how they do, what there is to do at the weekend, and a day in the life here.
Most daily things are within reach on foot; the station is further.
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| School | Stage | Distance | Latest results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School, Tring | Primary | 450 m | 68% met the expected standard |
| Dundale Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 550 m | 52% met the expected standard |
| Goldfield Infants' and Nursery School | Primary | 750 m | – |
| Grove Road Primary School | Primary | 900 m | 70% met the expected standard |
| Tring School | Secondary | 300 m | Attainment 8: 50.5 · 11.3% of GCSEs at 8–9 |
| Tring Park School for the Performing Arts | Independent | 450 m | 40.5% of GCSEs at 8–9 |
| Egerton-Rothesay School | Independent | 6.0 km | 1.4% of GCSEs at 8–9 |
Every primary near HP23 5JA, ranked → · Every secondary → Ranked on results, with Ofsted and SEN; each school's page says how hard it is to get in.
No state primary within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
| Sport | Nearest | Distance | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennis | Pound Meadow Recreation Ground | 170 m | 9 |
| Cycling | Tring Pump Track | 1.9 km | 5 |
| Swimming | Tring Swimming Pool | 290 m | 4 |
| Cricket | Tring Park Cricket Club | 350 m | 3 |
| Multi-sport | Tring Astro Turf | 410 m | 2 |
| Golf | Stocks Golf Club | 3.5 km | 2 |
| Pilates | The Pilates House | 220 m | 1 |
| Yoga | Tring Yoga Studio | 640 m | 1 |
| Squash | Tring Squash Club | 1.1 km | 1 |
| Football | Tring Corinthians | 1.1 km | 1 |
| Archery | Chiltern Archery | 4.3 km | 1 |
| Bowls | Aston Clinton Bowls Club | 4.5 km | 1 |
| Orienteering | Orienteering Course Start | 4.6 km | 1 |
Named clubs, pitches and centres mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and facilities registered with Sport England Active Places (Contains Data © Sport England, CC BY 4.0). Neither list is complete, so a club not shown may still exist.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 51% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Tring, a short drive or bike ride (2.4 km), with 788k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is School, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 387, 398); 19 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 48 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
Central London is 47 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School, Tring, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Tring School, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 50.5 · 11.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Chesham Grammar School (9.4 km) and Aylesbury High School (11.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 300 m away, with Rontec Shell Tring/ Morrisons Daily closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Rothschild House Group (1.0 km), with Rooney Chemist the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, A & J Hair is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Stoke Mandeville Hospital, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 69% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 6 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
The Goat Yard is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Robin Hood Inn the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 68 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 45% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Pound Meadow Playing Field, 150 m away; for exercise, The Pilates House (200 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
57 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
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For holidays, London Luton is 21 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 50% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.